Band co-founder Garth Hudson will celebrate his band’s legacy with the new all-star tribute Chest Fever. Produced by Hudson with co-producer/engineer Peter J. Moore at his side (Cowboy Junkies, Lucinda Williams), Garth Hudson Presents Chest Fever: A Canadian Tribute To The Band will be released on October 2, 2012 through Curve Music (US distribution through Redeye Distribution). Hudson worked with a number of Canadian artists on the project, including Neil Young, Cowboy Junkies and Bruce Cockburn.

This is the first time a Band tribute project has been sanctioned and produced by a member of The Band. This is also the first time the music of this influential group has been solely recorded by Canadian artists.

“It was very organic how the artists and songs matched up so perfectly,” Hudson said in a statement. “I had aural visions of how each song could be enhanced by the talent of each artist… each voice, instrument, and spirit.”

Hudson continues, “These songs were among the most enjoyable to me while the Band was together because of the words, or the story, or humor… an example of all three is the reading of ‘Clothes Line Saga,’ written by Bob Dylan and sung by Margo Timmins with Cowboy Junkies,” he says. “Each of these songs stands on its own, yet they mystically sequence together as a string of jewels.”

A version of “This Wheel’s on Fire” featuring Young, Hudson and The Sadies is available on Relix.com

Here’s a look at the album’s tracks ans guest artists

1. Danny Brooks & The Rockin’ Revelators – Forbidden Fruit

2. Mary Margaret O’Hara – Out of the Blue

3. Peter Katz & The Curious – Acadian Driftwood

4. Neil Young & Sadies – This Wheel’s on Fire

5. Suzie McNeil – Ain’t Got No Home

6. Cowboy Junkies – Clothes Line Saga

7. Kevin Hearn & Thin Buckly – You Ain’t Going Nowhere

8. Bruce Cockburn & Blue Rodeo – Sleeping

9. The Road Hammers – Yazoo Street Scandal

10. Raine Maida – The Moon Struck One

11. The Sadies – The Shape I’m In

12. Chantal Kreviazuk – Tears of Rage

13. I Loved Your Too Much – Hawksley Workman

14. Great Big Sea – Knockin’ Lost John

15. Blue Rodeo – King Harvest

16. The Trews – Move to Japan

17. Garth Hudson – Genetic Method (Anew)

18. Ian Thornley & Bruce Cockburn – Chest Fever